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- p. 43 …cavalry mounted on gas driven flying horses” never arrived to
“sweep the Germans from the sky…
- p. 46 …Mitchell never received an American air force commensurate with
the ambitious idens of air power which…
- p. 49 …This project, like so many others, had lagged, and the Air Service was
never equipped during…
- p. 50 …the Army or the Air Corps?” but never, “Are
you in the Army or the Corps…
- p. 55 …any Air Service officers, and I have never heard
anybody yet-any Air Service officer-against…
- p. 69 …But one axiom,
with its corollaries, never varied. T o him the airplane was first and…
- p. 75 …Powerful air attacks resolutely pressed home could never be
completely stopped, but their effects could best…
- p. 94 …rate for the time being, the decision never-
theless left an open question as to how…
- p. 121 …large-scale warfare; production of combat types never exceeded 300
aircraft a month. The pattern of…
- p. 122 …the German Air Force, the
Regia Aeronautica never exhibited sufficient power to be decisive in
the…
- p. 133 …Except for a few raids against French
factories, the force had never been employed in a…
- p. 140 …into
a complete war economy production was never equal to the demands
of our own forces…
- p. 150 …Long-term needs
of the Air Corps and the sudden availability of funds in quantities
never…
- p. 181 …Actually, the Air Staff had
never approved of the method followed in RAINBOW No. 5 . l…
- p. 217 …Members of the Hawaiian Air Force, who had never flown
heavy bombers, began to receive intensive…
- p. 219 …were not then satisfactory for permanent garrisons. Never-
theless, the commander of the Hawaiian Department, Lt…
- p. 227 …T h e planes never reached their destination. Other
bombardment units were being prepared for transfer…
- p. 241 …responsible officers, a few crucial points
have never been satisfactorily explained.
T h e general pattern…
- p. 277 …motors, sole-
noids, and gun mounts-were never found. After many hours of fruit-
less search…
- p. 288 …planners and
from which AAF Headquarters was never to deviate.
The translation of the accepted grand…
- p. 303 …the principal features of the plan
were never challenged, it was subsequently revised in a draft…
- p. 309 …W a r Plans Division was
never incorporated into GHQ and remained a potential rival to…
- p. 336 …the shooting and wrote that they were never
able to make out an airplane.g6It is…
- p. 412 …As it happened, the B-24's never
returned to India, but, instead, remained in the…
- p. 457 …Meanwhile the Edsall with the remaining
pilots had headed for Java, never to be heard from…
- p. 492 …Squadron was assigned, but which it would never reach, going from
Australia to Tongatabu; ( 3 ) Christmas…
- p. 500 …deck of a carrier presented a problem never
before challenged by Army planes. Hence an accelerated…
- p. 502 …the bows and wetting the flight deck. Never before had this been
accomplished, yet now it…
- p. 509 …Island, in the
Louisiade Archipelago.” They were never needed, for on 7-8 May
the two…
- p. 513 …exist, it was at a point which never reached the
aircrews, for on the operational level…
- p. 524 …handicaps under which
AAF planes had operated. Never were more than fourteen B- I 7’s…
- p. 527 …AAF planners clung firmly to their belief that
proper observance of economy of force would never…
- p. 531 …Crews which had
previously never loaded torpedoes now for the first time fitted these
weapons into…
- p. 544 …But the Japanese never at
any time based their bombers in appreciable numbers a t either…
- p. 548 …26's in torpedo-dropping, but they never would be put into
All told, the record…
- p. 556 …until it had been thoroughly trained and never to com-
mit it piecemeal. General Magruder had…
- p. 560 …pressed into service against the Germans," and never reached the
CBI." Colonel Haynes had reached India…
- p. 606 …reason that the Antilles Air Task Force
never evolved, as did I Bomber Command, into an…
- p. 614 …that reason deserving a high
priority, could never dispose of the U-boat menace but must…
- p. 635 …In Washington the Munitions Assign-
ments Board t had never considered this schedule as more than…
- p. 670 …they bombed from 39,200 feet, and never
below 30,000. By AAF standards they had…
- p. 672 …Goering had never put enough bombers over England,
nor had he concentrated his forces on the…
- p. 690 …of co-operation and combined action probably never
before equaled by the military forces of two…
- p. 729 …shoot at aerial targets, and several
had never operated a turret in the air. This deficiency…
A I R T R A N S P O R T A N D F E R R Y I N G
land and thence to Iceland and to Britain.'l3 Such a route would have
required the construction of only one base in addition to those already
in use-the one in Greenland. But after the United States became an
active participant in the undertaking, and when the Lend-Lease Act
raised the prospect of a greatly increased volume of traffic, the project
was altered and expanded. Several factors made the field at Gander
Lake a very unsatisfactory staging point. Traffic moving through the
base and directly across the Atlantic to Scotland was already heavier
than could be well a c c ~ m m o d a t e d . ' ~ ~T h e airport lay considerably to
the east of a direct line of flight from embarkation points in Maine
or eastern Canada to southern Greenland. Moreover, weather condi-
tions in Newfoundland were much worse than in the mainland region
of Labrador, which enjoyed a better location on the line of flight to
G~een1and.I'~Accordingly, a site for development was selected at
Goose Bay in Labrador; and Canada having undertaken the respon-
sibility for construction of airdrome facilities, the work was begun
there in September 1941.T h e first airplane landed on one of the
temporary snow-packed runways two days after Pearl Harb0r.l''
T h e primary responsibility for development of needed facilities in
Greenland fell to the United States under the terms of the Danish-
American agreement of 9 April 1941.' ''' Steps toward completing
preliminary surveys had already been taken, and early in July of that
year an advance task force of engineer, coast artillery, and general
service troops arrived in the waters of southern Greenland and pro-
ceeded up the Tunugdliarfik Fjord to Narsarssuak, a site previously
selected for the major staging base between Labrador and Iceland.
Construction of a landing field and other base facilities began at once,
and with the help of reinforcements that followed, continued on
through the winter.*'' T h e Narsarssuak base, which was given the
code name of BLUIE WEST I (BW-I), was ideally located about
midway between Goose Bay and Reykjavik, Iceland, lying approxi-
mately 775 miles from each. These relatively short hops from the
continent to Iceland and the one from Iceland to Scotland would
make it possible to move even fighter aircraft along the route without
too great difficulty.
Work on a second air base in Greenland, located farther north on
the west coast just above the Arctic Circle and to be known as
BLUIE WEST 8 (BW-8), began in late September 1941."~Plans
+ See above, p. IZZ.
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